Stations, programmed. Not predicted.
Real stations on a real clock, built only from identity-verified musicians — with a straight answer about how those musicians get paid.
LENDZ Radio is the radio service inside LENDZ. Its dial holds 20 genres, and each genre opens its own station only when enough verified musicians have put enough records into it. Stations run on a broadcast clock with short breaks near each quarter hour, never in the middle of a song. Every record comes from a Verified Musician’s Showcase, and artists enrolled as creators earn a share of the advertising their music carries.
A station is a place, not a playlist
Most music apps watch what you play and hand you more of it. LENDZ Radio works the way radio always has: you pick a genre, you tune in, and you hear what that station is playing right now — the same thing everyone else tuned to it is hearing.
There is no skip button. The one control is the dial. Flip it and you land on the next station in the same genre, wrapping around when you reach the end; a genre with a single station has nowhere to flip to, so the control simply isn’t there. You can save stations to presets and send a quick emoji reaction to whatever is on air.
Tap the song that’s playing and you leave the radio for the artist: their Showcase, the page where the rest of their work lives.
The dial
One blade per genre, in a fixed order, each genre holding the same colour everywhere it appears in the app. A blade lights when its genre is on air. Until then, the dial in the app shows how close that genre is to opening.
How a station goes live
Nobody switches a station on by hand. Stations are counted into existence from what artists have published.
- 01Procedure 01
A musician is verified
An artist applies for verification and chooses the Musician category. It is a one-time $399 identity check, not a subscription. Approval puts the musician ring on their avatar and opens their Showcase.
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They publish their Showcase
A Showcase stays private until its artist publishes it. Once it is public, its active songs count toward the artist’s genre — one genre per artist, picked from the fixed list.
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The genre fills toward its floor
Each genre is measured on two counts at once: records, and the distinct artists behind them. A station opens only when both clear the floor. A deep catalog from a handful of artists does not open a station on its own.
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More stations, same bar
As a genre grows, it can open further stations — but every one of them has to clear the full floor again, in both counts. On the dial they read as the genre name with a station number.
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The day is composed
Each station’s broadcast day is built from its ranked records ahead of time, with a pass that pulls apart any two songs by the same artist that would otherwise play back to back.
The clock
Every hour has a break near each quarter-hour mark. The composer puts each break on the gap between records closest to its mark, so a break can land a little early or a little late, but it never cuts into a song. How many records fit in an hour is whatever the music makes it.
The broadcast day never opens on a commercial: the first mark of the day comes before any record has played, so it is skipped. A break carries booked spots or the platform’s own house spots; when there is no ad at all, it plays a short station ID. A break with nothing at all to air is left out, and the records run straight through its mark.
Fair rotation, by rule
Rotation is arithmetic with a few hard limits, applied the same way to every artist on the station.
No artist owns the air
Each artist is capped at a small fixed share of any station’s day. That cap is why a station needs many artists to fill a day, not a few big libraries.
No song wears out
A record cannot come back around inside a fixed window of real time, measured on the clock rather than counted in slots.
New songs get a real hearing
A new record enters as a new add and is held there until it has had a set number of plays or a set number of hours on air, whichever comes first — only then is it ranked into regular rotation.
A program director, every week
Every Monday morning an automated program director reviews each station’s rotation against the week’s listening — completions, bail-outs, trends — and moves records between rotation tiers. Every change it makes is logged with a one-line reason.
Every song is a door
A musician’s Showcase is their VIP page on LENDZ: their songs, their story, and the songs a station can play. Hear something good, tap it, and you are on that page with the song cued.
You can also share the song you are hearing. LENDZ Radio writes the line for you — the title, the artist and the station — and attaches a link card to the artist’s Showcase, ready to post to your own Briefs.
Getting paid, honestly
Plays alone pay nothing. What follows is how the code applies money, not a promise of an amount.
Two things must be true
An artist earns only while they are a Verified Musician and an enrolled LENDZ creator whose Stripe payout setup is complete. Earnings start from the moment of enrollment and are never back-paid for plays before it.
Breaks on LENDZ Radio
When a radio spot is billed, a fixed share of it goes to the artists whose records played before that break, split evenly across those records. A share an artist is not yet eligible for is kept by the platform — it is never quietly handed to the other artists in the same break.
Showcase plays
Advertising on an artist’s own Showcase — audio and video alike — pays the artist a fixed share of what it earns.
Monthly, itemized
Ad earnings are gathered into one pending record per artist per month, with the breaks, records and stations behind it listed line by line, and transferred to the artist’s Stripe account by a monthly payout run.
Two ways in
Listeners
Pick a genre and stay. You hear real stations with real breaks, every voice belongs to a verified person, and any song is one tap from the artist who made it.
Musicians
Get verified, publish your Showcase, and your best songs become part of your genre’s count toward a station. Enroll as a creator and set up payouts, and the advertising around your music starts paying you.
Questions on file
Q01Is LENDZ Radio on the air yet?
Stations open genre by genre, as each genre clears its floor of records and artists. Inside the app, the dial shows which genres are on air and how close the others are. This page describes how the system works; it does not claim any station is live.
Q02Can I skip a song?
No. LENDZ Radio is live rotation, so there is no skip and no queue. The control is the dial, which flips to the next station in the same genre.
Q03Who can put music on LENDZ Radio?
Only Verified Musicians, through a published Showcase. There is no licensed catalog and no upload path that skips identity verification.
Q04How are songs chosen for rotation?
Records are ranked into rotation tiers from how listeners actually respond — how often a record is heard through, how often listeners bail on it, which way it is trending — under hard limits on any one artist’s share of the day and on how soon a song can repeat. A weekly program director review adjusts the tiers and logs a reason for each change.
Q05How do artists get paid?
Artists who are both Verified Musicians and enrolled creators with Stripe payouts set up earn a share of radio advertising, split across the records that played before each break, and a share of the advertising on their own Showcase. Earnings are paid monthly and itemized.
Q06Why can’t I pick any genre I like for my music?
Because a station is a genre. The genre list is fixed so that every artist counts toward a real station on the dial, rather than scattering across labels that never reach the floor.
Q07Do I need an account to listen?
LENDZ Radio plays inside LENDZ, and LENDZ is invite-only. Join the waitlist to get in.